“how is it? Wouldn’t this get a good evaluation?”
A week before the final exams, Cassena Paige, who had devised a magic that fit the scroll theme, asked with a slightly nervous expression.
Lane, who was looking through the parchment with interest, shrugged.
“well.”
“Hey, are you sure you can’t?”
“well.”
“what! Be sure to answer me!”
The sound of Cassena’s thumping was really mind-boggling. Lane shook her head with a sigh.
“Because that answer is not something I can give you.”
“Then who will do it?!”
“It’s magic.”
Cassena tilted her head, wondering if she was joking, but there was no mischief on Lane’s face.
“The person who taught me magic told me. They said that magic is putting your heart on a square.”
Instead, the emotions forming in those eyes like a sad smile… … I don’t know exactly, but it was probably a feeling close to longing.
“With all your heart? to magic?”
Magic is a science that pursues reason at its root. Here, emotion is an impurity that must be excluded. But do you put your heart into it?
“I couldn’t understand, and I still don’t understand, but when I tried it, it fit better than I thought.”
“what?”
“They said that if you put your heart into magic, magic will answer your heart.”
At that time, Lane’s voice sounded dreamy and heartbreakingly bitter, as if walking on a path piled with fallen leaves during the long autumn.
Then, when Lane smiled, the scenery that had been drawn in his mind for no reason disappeared. I felt somewhat regretful.
“So don’t ask me, ask the lady’s magic directly. Then magic will give you the answer.”
* * *
“Trapezoid… … Can you implement that with a scroll?”
Even the president, Madelia Page, had to look at her daughter with a slightly puzzled look. Head Professor Marhena narrowed her eyes.
“A trapezoid? What kind of confidence do you have?”
“From the looks of it, the poor disciple seems to be trying to embody telekinesis.”
“Don’t you know that the trapezoid is a telekinetic magic square, Kyle Inum! Madelia’s daughter must be the only one who chose telekinesis while taking this test.”
“Even in the long history of ＜Deleiten＞, maybe twice is all.”
Psychokinesis is a typical non-attribute magic that does not belong to the eight properties of magic.
Initiation is easy, but it is very difficult to reach the advanced level, so most of them were famous for simply learning the introductory level and giving up.
After arguing with Christa, Gertrude, who was watching the same screen, opened her mouth.
“Even if you only know how to handle the power of the introductory stage, can’t you do pretty much anything?”
“okay. Studying other attributes while studying telekinesis is also a way to increase your value as a mage.”
There is a big difference between just casting magic and implementing magic with a scroll.
If you want to understand easily, it is good to know that in order to make it into a scroll, the caster must have a considerable proficiency in the magic attribute.
That’s why many people admired Christa when she perfectly captured the magic of kinship limits in a scroll.
“While both the Four Great Elements and the Four Small Elements use runes that belong to the modifier Lutischen, it is one of the reasons why it is difficult to use the amplified Delwei Shirt alone for telekinesis.”
“In that case, there would have been a way to compromise with a lower difficulty attribute. Is it the pride of Sedo?”
Since telekinesis increased violently in difficulty from the moment it passed the introductory stage, it was unclear whether even 1-star magic could be properly implemented with a scroll.
Hmph, Christa arrogantly crossed her arms and smiled as if it wasn’t that bad.
“It’s a win-win here, he seems to have a personality that doesn’t like to lose very much.”
Christa is a heroine who has devoted herself to the study of magic since she was six years old.
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Maybe that’s why, when I see someone who, like myself, truly encounters magic, I like it for no reason.
Watching his master grin, even Gertrude shook her head in disbelief.
“It’s better to change the personality that makes it so simple to show favor to a competitor.”
“Wow, a competitor? It’s cracking! That guy isn’t even worth a bite! Who am I? The genius of the century, Christa Warden!”
“Hmm~ Does that mean that Lady Cassena will never lose Prince Lane?”
Then, the female students who overheard this story covered their mouths, and the male students whistled. Immediately, Christa’s blades plunged into Gertrude’s head.
“Because they ask me if I’m coming lately, I climb all the way to the top of my head, huh?”
Hee… … Tears welled up in Gertrude as she touched the crown of her head where the lump had sprouted. On the other hand, those who have completed the test enjoy such leisure.
“… … .”
In the middle of a fierce battleground, in the silence like the eye of a storm, Cassena felt the tension of her own heartbeat clearly audible.
‘It’s obviously still lacking a lot, but… … .’
Lane, can I talk like that while studying magic next to you someday? Perhaps this is the first hurdle for that.
“It’s a trapezoid… … I’m short on learning, so I don’t know much. What kind of magic is this?”
It was then that one judge showed interest. It was an old man with a stoop and a cane on the ground.
“This, this!”
Perhaps because of the tension, his voice soared high for a moment, then cracked. It was an embarrassing moment, but probably because of that, three or four more judges came.
“It’s a magic square of telekinesis!”
The Page family, like the Elector Counts, was a great aristocrat belonging to the first echelon, so they had to speak short language to everyone except the Elector Counts.
“Telekinesis?”
“It’s so convenient! Even if it’s hard to move, you can do anything with this strength!”
“Oh, can you show me?”
Cassena clears her throat and clears her mind, then begins drawing the letters of the gods in the air with her fingertips.
The light created by the fingertips remained as an afterimage, flickering beautifully in the air.
“Oh, oh oh oh?!”
The beautiful and unique limit of kinship drew exclamations of admiration from the audience as well as from the judges.
The shape of the magic square is trapezoidal.
The inscribed rune is the Lord (呪; praying), and the mathematical formula used to solve it is a cubic equation.
“… … !”
Madelia’s eyes widened as she watched her daughter in worry. Surprising whispers are heard from everywhere.
“I used it at high speed… … !”
“Magic that belongs to the advanced level of 1-star magic… … !”
“No, it sounds great, but I just used blood kinship limits… … ?”
Madelia shook her head.
No matter how limited the page family is, if you have a low understanding of the magic, it is impossible to cast it so quickly.
And that’s not just 1-star magic, it’s advanced 1-star magic that uses cubic equations?
‘To this level in just two months… … ?’
Cassena, who was gasping for breath with a slightly flushed face, grabbed the glowing rune in the air, and a colorless and transparent rotating sphere appeared in front of him.
‘So what kind of magic is that?’
The question that Madelia had in her heart was brought out by the judges. Cassena immediately replied with a tense expression.
“This sphere is the core of telekinesis. When you want to do something with telekinesis, just put your hand here and think about what you want.”
When Cassena put her hand on the sphere, the brush that had been lying there suddenly floated up. Then parchment came to mind, and the portable stool moved slightly to the side.
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … .”
The explanation ended with a slightly excited expression, but the judges only exchanged glances with each other in cold silence.
It sure looks convenient.
It looks convenient, but doesn’t it seem too trivial to call it scroll magic?
Feeling hopeless and trying to close my eyes, oh… … A middle-aged man wearing an expensive-looking wizard’s robe had his eyes shining fiercely.
“Right… … I understand why I used the rune of lord for telekinesis.”
Ju (呪) is one of the double runes that has the dual meaning of ‘origin’ and ‘curse’. Even though it is a 1-star magic, it is because of its unique trait that it requires a cubic equation.
“We established the foundation of magic with the trait of ‘origin’, and even secured the continuity of magic by using the trait of ‘curse’… … Is my understanding correct?”
The most important feature of curse-type magic is persistence.
Unlike magic that inflicts great damage at once, curses are magic that requires constant damage.
Cassena nodded with a surprised look at recognizing him.
“I tried various things to make use of the advantages of telekinetic power, but perhaps because of the limitations of 1-star magic, only cases where the power of telekinesis was too strong and the duration was short or too weak and the duration was only long came out.”
There, Lane did not give the right answer right away. Instead, I just gave you a hint.
– If you can only use 1-star magic, shouldn’t you just use a double rune?
Whatever Lane taught me would always end up with the correct answer. It was the same this time too.
“What I found there was this spell! With this rune, you can have the strength of telekinesis as much as you need in real life, and you can have durability enough to use it about 400 times!”
Then, as if they had received a lesson, the wizards whispered with their eyes shining.
“Oh, is that so?”
“Four hundred times… … The rune of the lord went so well with telekinesis-type magic.”
“To produce the same effect as 2-star magic with just one rune, isn’t it more amazing than I thought?”
In the midst of the whispers, Cassena tidied up her voice with a shy expression and added:
“This is my short thought, but telekinesis is not just a ‘convenient power’. It is ‘essential strength’ for those who are uncomfortable with life… … .”
Perhaps it was because the words came from her own devastating experience, and there was something in Cassena’s shy explanation that touched people’s heartstrings.
“So it is. I wanted to make a scroll that could really help those people. Still lacking a lot… … .”
And at the end, when he smiled innocently as if he was embarrassed, silence overwhelmed the hall as if the world had stopped.
It is a fragment of the truth that Atlante taught Rin and that Rane passed on to Cassena, magic.
A tremendous uproar erupted as if the magic had answered that heart, as if it were trying to make up for the moment of silence.
“Can you give me one right away? Four hundred times!”
“Give me one too. When I get to my age, there are days when I have a hard time getting up in the morning because my back hurts so much, and it will be very helpful.”
“It would be perfect if I left one for my mother. Give me one too.”
There were seven orders received in an instant from judges from all walks of life.
Cassena blinked her eyes in embarrassment as if she couldn’t believe this enormous favor.
Looking down at that figure, Lane was smiling unwittingly, brimming with satisfaction.
‘It’s a natural result. If you’re really strict about it, you could be said to be one of Rin’s disciples.’
Of course, I’m the most lacking among those disciples right now, but anyway.
Not only the head professor, Marhena, but also the assistant professor, Kyle, were smiling.
“Madelia has been hiding an interesting dish.”
“I agree. I’m still not good enough, but when I grow up, I’m sure I’ll become an interesting wizard. A really, really fun wizard.”
Ah, the golden generation. It’s not just that there are talented cadets. There are so many cadets with great mindsets.
I’m so looking forward to it.
What kind of form will magic take in an era where these children are the main axis?
“Kasenaaa practice!”
At that time, an embarrassing cry erupted from the VIP room and shook the hall.
It was Yuren Page.
Despite the restraints of his vassals, the nobleman shed tears of emotion and waved his hand toward Cassena.
“What, what, what are you doing?! really!”
Cassena turned her head away as if she didn’t know that kind of person, and concentrated on drawing magic squares on parchment.
“… … .”
Amidst the commotion, Madelia Page had to cover her eyes with one hand, unable to control her tears.
– Your Excellency, I’m really sorry, but you can’t walk for the rest of your life… … .
– You said you don’t learn magic! What do you do if you learn? A handicapped wizard? I hate that!
– You can’t teach anything. My will is so stubborn… … sorry.
The memories that passed by my ears for an instant were fragments of despair, fragments of sadness, and fragments of tears.
I did, I sure did… … .
What I see right now is so dazzling that it’s hard to see… … .
– Sir, would it be all right if I made Lady Cassena walk?
I’ve said it a few times already, and I’ve thought about it, but I really have a debt that I can’t repay. Debts that are not enough to be paid in a lifetime… … .